Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Ireland, contemporary religious changes, written and visual ethnographic methodology
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Anthropology
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to investigate the cultural and historical implications of contemporary religious changes among two case studies of millenarian movements, drawing specifically on ethnographic field research already conducted in a Hmong village in Northern Thailand, and continuing research on conflict transformation among the Protestant and Catholic communities of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Drawing from both written and visual ethnographic methodology, the aim of this project is to use the unique qualities of a visually supplemented narrative to illustrate and explicate how people within these millenarian movements interpret religious conflict as an “enchanted” (Gell 1994) narrative of persecution, actively transforming the experienced narrative to ostensibly collapse the sacred into the mundane, the physical with the metaphysical, and the “fallen” with the “sublime” (Webster 2013).
Recommended Citation
Schill, Brinnan and Hickman, Jacob
(2019)
"Moral Transformation of Religious Conflict: Believers & Bonfire in Belfast, Northern Ireland,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2019:
Iss.
2019, Article 23.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2019/iss2019/23